Chapter 258: A monk’s life is also a life!
Chapter 257 – A monk’s life is also a life!
Hearing the girl’s words, the male lead was abruptly shocked.
“I’ve seen the Buddha? When did I see it, why don’t I know?”
The girl said, “The biggest one inside the Mahamudra is the Buddha I seem to remember that He used to be called by this name, then He turned into a monster similar to a tree, what the new name is I don’t know.”
The male master took a deep breath and a shocked look appeared on his face.
“Buddha’s golden body is actually His original body?”
“The Buddha has turned into a monster?”
“The Underworld Tree!”
The girl’s words were so informative that it took the male lead a long time to gradually accept them.
“How did the Buddha become a monster?”
The male lead didn’t beat around the bush and directly asked the most crucial and most wanted question in his mind.
If the girl was really the pagoda’s artifact spirit as she said, and was omnipresent in the pagoda.
Then she was definitely the most direct witness to the matter of the Buddha’s mutation.
There was no one who knew better than her what had really happened.
“This matter has to start a long time ago.” The girl shook her head, “I can’t remember exactly how long, I’ve never been very sensitive to changes in time, anyway, it was right many years ago.”
The male master sniffed and urged, “The exact time is not important, what’s important is what actually happened!”
The girl thought for a moment, as if searching for a long dusty memory.
After a while, she said, “I don’t remember much of the specifics, my consciousness was just born at that time, and I was ignorant of many things .”
“All I can remember is of a very scary man in black who told the Buddha that He had betrayed the Great Way, and then He was beaten to death by the Buddha .”
“Then later I kept observing the Buddha, that terrifying man never appeared again, but a black aura appeared in the golden light on the Buddha’s body, the mutation should have started at that time!”
When the male lead heard the girl’s words, he suddenly thought of the black qi that had grabbed the old monk’s divine soul.
Although there wasn’t any evidence to prove that the black-clothed man that the girl said was related to the black qi that grabbed the old monk’s divine soul, the male master’s intuition told him that the black-clothed man definitely couldn’t escape the connection!
The male lead was relieved when he finally found a clue about the old monk.
As long as there was a direction, it was fine!
The male lead’s biggest worry was that like before, the entire secret realm would be searched and end up with nothing!
The male lead asked the girl, “Did the Buddha say what the man in black was from?”
The girl said, “No! After the Buddha realized that the golden light on his body had appeared black, he went straight into seclusion and didn’t come out until a long time later.”
Although he had already guessed the final answer, when he heard the girl say so, the male master still asked with his heart in his mouth, “Did the Buddha clear away the black aura?”
“No!”
The girl mercilessly broke the last trace of fantasy in the male master’s mind, “When the Buddha came out of the gate, the black qi had already occupied half of his body.”
Saying this, the girl looked as if she had remembered something, and there was a hint of disgust in her tone.
The girl said, “You are the one who hasn’t seen a Buddha that is half gold and half black, that look is not only very evil, but also very disgusting, I had nightmares for days after watching it at that time.”
Having nightmares?
The male master froze for a moment, “You still sleep?”
“Metaphor! I was speaking metaphorically! Do you understand the metaphor? I’m an artifact spirit, do you think I’ll sleep?”
When the girl spoke, her tone was directly raised by eight degrees.
“You’re so boring, not at all interesting like that guy from before.”
“It’s a pity that guy is too dangerous, I sense a lot of the same kind of flavor from him, otherwise I would have gone to play with him!”
The male lead fell silent.
He didn’t expect to be despised by an artifact spirit one day.
And to be mocked by her for being inferior to Zhao Yi.
Although disgruntled, the male lead didn’t snap. He had more important things to do.
The male lead asked, “What did the Buddha do after he left the gate? Did that black qi start capturing people’s divine souls, and where did the captured divine souls go?”
The male lead had wanted to directly ask the girl if she had seen where the old monk’s divine soul had been captured.
Before the words left his mouth, the male lead suddenly thought that the girl had said before that there were some places in the Pagoda Mystic Realm that she couldn’t go to.
Without thinking about it, those places must be the secret worlds infested by the Underworld Tree, as Zhao Yi had said.
The Mahamudra Pagoda was where the Underworld Tree’s main body was located, and the danger and level of protection was definitely the highest, so it was impossible for the girl to know what was happening there.
This time the male lead guessed correctly.
When the girl heard her words, she shook her head and said, “The black aura on the Buddha’s body is very strange, I feel as if He can detect me, so I’ve been avoiding Him all these years, and I don’t know if He’s started to capture people, and where the ones He captured have gone.”
After the girl finished, she added, “But I know what the Buddha did after he came out of the gate!”
“What did the Buddha do?” The male master asked.
The girl said, “After the Buddha came out of the gate, he gathered many people from the Buddha Sect to come over, and then built that Mahamudra.”
“After the construction of the Mahamudra was completed, those monks known as Bodhisattvas and Vajrapani took up residence to help the Buddha suppress the black qi.”
“The rest of those monks were chanting at the entrance, and their chanting was so loud and noisy that I still remember it until now!”
After the hero listened to the girl’s words, his mind couldn’t help but conjure up the scene of tens of thousands of Buddhist disciples working together to build the Buddha Sacred Ground.
Unfortunately, the Buddha Sect’s holy temple that the predecessors had spent countless efforts to build had ended up being turned into a devil’s cave.
For a moment, the male lead was saddened in his heart.
“And then later?” The male lead asked.
The male lead wanted to know why the Mahamudra had turned into a demonic cave.
This was also the answer Zhao Yi wanted to know.
The male lead knew that Zhao Yi had purposely said the opposite before just to try to get him to go in and find out what was going on.
The male lead went to find out, but unfortunately ran short.
Now he could only pin his hopes on the girl child!
“Later?” The girl’s tone paused for a moment and continued, “The Bodhisattvas and Vajrapani who went into the Mahamudra later never came out again, I don’t know what they were doing inside!”
“Half of those monks chanting at the entrance died, while the other half remaining kept going out to bring new monks to their deaths.”
The girl probably really had no sense of time, she counted for a while before finally saying, “This has been going on for a very long time, probably more than a hundred thousand years, and the number of monks who died there is simply too many to count!”
After the girl finished speaking, she suddenly thought of something and suggested the male master, “If you really want to know how many people have died, you can go and count how many inscriptions there are on the pillars of the Maharajah’s Treasure Hall, each inscription represents a human life, and how many inscriptions means how many people have died!”
Hiss!
The male lead immediately sucked in a breath of cool air.
No wonder!
The male lead suddenly understood why Zhao Yi had asked him to look at the Great Hall and the bottom of the river.
A golden seal?
The male lead’s body staggered for a moment, feeling that the three views he had held on to for more than a decade had suddenly shattered.
It turned out that the golden seal was actually the divine soul of a Buddhist disciple.
A golden seal, a human life.
The male lead suddenly clenched his fists violently and gritted his teeth:
“Buddha, you are so cruel!”
PS: I am begging to finish reading, and I am begging to catch up!
(End of chapter)